---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE REPORTING OF RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS' NONPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN UTILITY AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE REPORTING OF RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS' NONPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN UTILITY AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5402"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5402 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Credit rating agencies", "Electric distribution companies", "Gas companies", "Municipal utilities", "Public utilities", "Telecommunications companies", "Telephone companies", "Water companies", "Gas registrants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abercrombie, Catherine F.", "Albis, James M.", "Lesser, Matthew", "Riley, Emmett D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2fed81f-9e0e-43a6-92f3-b750d4519e71"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "d11ed846671fd9c31161fca608f368d55eb6edae024e2a2a5af8534523b46a32"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ct"]
---

# Connecticut HB 5402 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE REPORTING OF RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS' NONPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN UTILITY AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **R00** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05402-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05402-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 294 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 35 — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abercrombie, Catherine F. — primary (person)
- Albis, James M. — primary (person)
- Lesser, Matthew — primary (person)
- Riley, Emmett D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-03-01** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Banking `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** PUBLIC HEARING 0306
- **2018-03-20** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-29** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/18
- **2018-04-05** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 185
- **2018-04-05** FILE NO. 252
- **2018-04-11** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-13** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-13** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 310
- **2018-05-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-23** PUBLIC ACT 18-116 `became-law`
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-06** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2fed81f-9e0e-43a6-92f3-b750d4519e71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).